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| Title: |
Natural history essays |
| Author(s): |
Renshaw, G. |
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1904 |
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London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes |
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pp. i-xv, 1-218 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. 1894 - Six animals were killed in Zululand by the late Mr. C. R. Varndell and a friend. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Finally, I may mention my own specimen, brought home a year or two back from South Africa by Mr. Penfold, an engineer working on the railway near Buluwayo. It is an anterior horn of the mohohu type, said to have been picked up amongst the sedges of a river. One may reasonably conclude that it h... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| The following is the scanty list of the appearances of R. simus since 1890:
1892. Messrs. Eyre and Coryndon, in August, 1892, saw a bull, cow and calf all together: the next day they met a large cow, a half-grown individual, and a calf. The calf died in captivity after a few days.... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Subsequent investigations have demonstrated that the white rhinoceros was once widely distributed over South Africa, wherever the grasslands were adapted to its habits, extending from the Orange River in the south as far north as the Zambesi. We may conveniently take 1812 as representing the era... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| before outbreak of war in 1899 there were 4 in Zululand. According to a more recent estimate, however, about ten white rhinoceroses still in Zululand. In December 1902, an old bull and a younger one `escaped' into a native reservation, where they were promptly killed (See Field for March 21, 19... |
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World
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
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| Chewing mud. Photo of Rhinoceros unicornis, animal was actually chewing the mud when the photo was taken. |
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World
Morphology
Black Rhino
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| Ears open: fringed on upper edge. |
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World
Morphology
Black Rhino
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| Eye situated behind axis of second horn. |
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World
Morphology - Horn
African Rhino Species
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| The white rhinoceros, like its congener, carries two horns, but an examination of a good series of museum specimens will speedily demonstrate that the front one is always flattened anteriorly in the white species, and rounded anteriorly in the black. Moreover, R. simus has always the anterior ho... |
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Morphology - Horn
White Rhino
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| The anterior horn of the white rhinoceros shows great individual differences of curvature: two well marked types may be recognised.
The first type (mohohu) is the commoner: the horn is curved backwards.
The second type (kabaoba) is directed forwards, so that the anterior surface is often m... |
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Natural history essays
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